Select Upside, Downside Movers in the Morning

Avatar photo Doug Kass on October 19, 2026

Upside

– $IRON +52% (Phase 3 APOLLO trial met all primary and secondary endpoints in erythropoietic protoporphyria)

– $AAME +41% (long-delayed 2025 annual report was filed, showing a return to annual profitability)

– $XLAB +24% (extends rally after securing an $8.2M AI-server order)

– $TCRT +20% (extends volatile rally tied to a proposed acquisition and financing of up to $350M)

– $MEDS +15% (extends rally after outlining peptide-compounding expansion and licensing a direct-to-consumer GLP-1 platform)

– $CLF +11% (Q3 profit and EBITDA beat expectations, Q4 EBITDA was guided higher and 2027 EBITDA is expected to exceed $4B)

– $NBIS +7.5%, $CRWV +7.7%, $BE +5.2%, $SMCI +4.1%, $IREN +5.9% (AI-infrastructure names rebound from last week’s financing-driven selloff as Treasury yields ease)

– $CRDO +4.7%, $TER +5.1%, $LRCX +4.6%, $AMD +3.7%, $MU +3.7%, $AVGO +3.1% (chip names rebound from last week’s AI-led selloff ahead of key sector earnings)

– $INTC +4.3% (JPMorgan upgrades to Neutral from Underweight as confidence in the turnaround improves)

– $VAI +4.0% (agrees to acquire an 18MW Ohio computing center)

– $DDOG +3.9% (Bernstein upgrades to Outperform and sharply raises its price target on stronger AI-consumption trends)

Downside

– $ACTU -9.1% (files to sell 40M shares with 20M warrants)

Upside, Downside Movers in the Morning

Avatar photo Doug Kass on October 7, 2026

Upside

– $LPCN +40% (Health Canada approves TLANDO for testosterone replacement therapy)

– $APUS +9.4% (extends a high-volume rally tied to the BlockAssure agreement to build and operate the AssureChain insurance network)

– $PENG +4.3% (Q4 beat and FY27 sales and EPS outlook topped prior guidance and Street expectations on accelerating AI-infrastructure demand)

– CNQ +1.6%, APA +1.2%, OXY +1.0%, COP +1.0% (oil producers rise as crude climbs back above $100 a barrel)

Downside

– $CRBU -42% (launches a strategic-alternatives review, discontinues two allogeneic CAR-T programs and plans substantial workforce reductions)

– $BULL -30% (bipartisan House panel report says structural China ties pose national-security and US-user-data risks)

– $STM -5.4%, $TER -3.0%, $ASML -3.0%, $AMAT -2.7%, $LRCX -3.0%, $MU -2.8% (chip stocks fall in the risk-off technology tape as oil-driven inflation concerns pressure rate-sensitive growth shares)

– $BMNR -5.0%, $CRCL -4.0%, $MSTR -3.8%, $COIN -3.1%, $HOOD -3.0% (crypto-linked stocks fall as digital-asset prices weaken)

– $AAOI -4.8%, $CIEN -3.8%, $MTSI -3.0%, $COHR -3.2%, $GLW -3.3% (AI-networking and optical winners pull back after sharp recent rallies as technology exposure is reduced)

– $DB -4.7%, $SAN -4.2%, $HSBC -3.9%, $NWG -3.5%, $BCS -3.3% (European-bank ADRs fall as oil-driven inflation and sovereign-bond stress deepen fiscal concerns, with UK lenders also facing budget-tax fears)

– $STZ -3.9% (quarter beat, but adjusted FY guidance was merely reiterated and beer depletions declined)

– $BE -3.8%, $CEG -3.5%, $EME -1.9% (AI-power and data-center infrastructure winners give back part of recent gains amid the broader risk-off rotation)